Lindell Pendleton

Born Norma Lindell Price in the West Texas town of Quanah, to Joseph H. Price and Rosie Lee Cribbs. Lindell is the last surviving sibling of seven children to include Lloyd, Iva, Durward, Seldon, Inez and Bernard.

Lindell spent her early years in West Texas where, when not in school or working after school, she enjoyed being involved in church. After a meager 8 piano lessons, she taught herself to play well enough to begin playing for church services at roughly 14 years of age. This love for church music led her and her future husband to meet, fall in love and marry. This driving force and life-long passion that Lindell held for music and service continued through the entirety of her life.

With a seemingly endless gas tank of energy throughout her years, Lindell believed in work and the service of helping others any way she could. A quick learner, she held many jobs in her work life. Working in the school systems’ administrative positions and then AT&T, she was once told by an employer “she could do any job she wanted to”.

Though having survived losing her only child and husband within a span of less than a year, Lindell continued to carry on, juggernaut that she was, with her love of music and service by playing the piano at the church service that developed and grew at the independent living facility where she spent the last 12 years of her life. Fighting through the grief and pressing on through the inconvenience of age, she felt a sense of purpose and pride in that lifelong love for the church, music and the Lord. The last decade plus of her life was spent playing not only music, but also; Shanghai Rummy, 42, Chicken-Foot, Bingo and various games with her friends and co-residents at the Five Star Premier Residences. A very social person, Lindell continued to enjoy the company of her family and friends until her final days on earth.

She touched the lives of many and loved her friends and family beyond words. However, she many times uttered the words of a special place in her heart for her sons’ peers who remained close and supportive through her life. “That Bryan Adams group is the best group of kids I ever saw”.

She is predeceased by husband Gene Pendleton and son Terry Pendleton.

She is survived by her daughter-in-law Pam Pendleton, granddaughter Kim Bonner and husband Chris Bonner, great-grandchildren Tennessee, Coleman and Cora Lee, grandson Greg Pendleton and wife Janelle Pendleton, and numerous nieces and nephews and their children.

A visitation for Lindell will be held Wednesday, October 26, 2022, from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, immediately follwed by the funeral service, at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home, 7405 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX 75225.

For livestreaming of the service, please visit: https://vimeo.com/763110255

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Sparkman-Hillcrest.com for the Pendleton family.